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Anxiety Disorders Flashcards

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Anxiety

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Negative emotion and bodily symptoms of tension and anticipation of future danger

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Anxiety prevelence

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8- 30%

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Neurotic paradox

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Pattern of self defeating behaviour

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3 anxiety response systems

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Physical
Cognitive
Behavioural

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Fear

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Present- oriented immediate alarm reaction to current danger

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Panic

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Group of fight/ flight physical symptoms that unexpectedly occur in absence of obvious danger

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Nine anxiety disorder categories

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Seperation
GAD
Specific phobia
Social phobia
OCD
Panic disorder
Panic disorder with agoraphobia
PTSD
Acute Stress Disorder
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When is seperation anxiety normal

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7 months- preschool years

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SAD

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Age innapropriate, exessive, disabling anxiety about being away from parents or home

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SAD prevelance

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4- 10%– more girls

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Gender ratio for school refusal

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Equal

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GAD

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Excessive, uncontrollable worry about many events on most days

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Diagnostic criteria for GAD

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Requires at least one somatic symptom

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GAD prevelence

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3-6%

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GAD gender ratio

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Equal

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GAD age of onset

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10- 14

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Specific phobia

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Persistent fear and avoidance for at leats 6 months

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Evolutionary theory of phobias

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Infants biologically predisposed to learn certain fears

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5 subtypes of phobias

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Animal
Natural environment
Blood- injection- injury
Situational
Other
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Specific phobia prevelence

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4- 10%

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Specific phobia age of onset

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7- 9 yeras

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Social Phobia

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Social requirements exposing child to scrutiny and embarassment

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Specific phobia prevelence

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6-12% – twice as common in girls

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% of social phobics with depresison

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20%

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Amount of social phobics with another anxiety disorder

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2/3

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Selective mutism

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Failure to speak in certain social situation

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Selective mutism prevelence

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0.5%

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OCD prevelence

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1-3%

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OCD gender ratio

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2:1 for boys

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OCD age of onset

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9- 12 yeras

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Panic attack

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4 or more physical or cognitive fight or flight symptoms

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Panic Disorder

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Recurrent unexpected attacks followed by at least 1 month of persistentworry about having another attack

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Panic attack and disorder prevelence

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3-4 % panic attack

1% disorder

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Panic age of onset

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5- 19 years

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3 core features of PTSD

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Re experiencing of traumatic event
Avoidance of associated stimuli and numbing
Symptoms of extreme arousal

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Acute Stress Disorder

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3 dissociative symptoms within 1 month of trauma lasting 2 days- 1 month

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Threat- Related attentional bias

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Selective attention for potentially threatening information

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Behavior Lens Principle

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Disorder is a mix of actual child behaviour and the lens through which other’s view it in the child’s culture

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Amygdala

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React to unfamiliar and unexpected events

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Behavioural Inhibition

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Low threshold for novel stimuli puts child at greater risk for anxiety disorder

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FEAR

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Feeling frightened
Expecting bad things
Attitudes and actions that will help
Results and rewards

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Reactive Baseline

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Behaviour changes just because you are measuring it

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Fundamental attributional bias

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tendency to over-value dispositional or personality-based explanations for behavior while under-valuing situational explanations

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Self serving bias

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Attributing internal factor for success and external, uncontrollable factors for failure

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What attribution style does CBT encourage

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Internal- unstable- controllable

46
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RIDE

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Rename the thought
Insist you are in charge
Defy anxiety
Enjoy your success

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